Archive of Residential | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 25
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Guitar Weekend – Course for Beginners
Listed on August 18, 2013 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesThis is for those who either want to start playing the guitar or who have started but are getting nowhere fast; it’ll be a small course with limited places covering everything from set-up to basic chord progressions and scales to different strumming patterns and rhythms, focusing on tunes and not just technique.Read more ... -
Blues II weekend – How to play better Blues and Slide guitar, the original and best
Listed on August 18, 2013 by Guitar Weekends in Featured CoursesFully residential weekend guitar tuition courses since 1994. Our Weekends are for both experienced and not-so-experienced players alike at superb country venuesRead more ... -
Exploring English Music
Listed on July 30, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesA mid-week residential course at Dumbleton Hall to explore the varied repertoire of English music, featuring compositions by celebrated figures such as Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Bliss, Finzi, Britten, Arnold and Elgar. Read more ... -
Late Summer Singer’s Retreat
Listed on July 23, 2013 by Gillian Gingell Wormley in Featured CoursesSingers, come and enjoy a restful 5-night stay in a beautiful late Georgian House in a gorgeous Dorset setting, with wonderful accommodation, fabulous food and SING to your heart’s content, every day.Read more ... -
Leather Belt Making using traditional tools and techniques
Listed on July 6, 2013 by Monkton Wyld Court in Featured CoursesYou will cover a selection of basic leather working skills using traditional tools as well as working with Oak Bark tanned Bridle Butt hides from the tannery in Colyton. You will hand cut the straps for your belt, edge, bevel, dye and burnish it. As well as riveting, skiving and fitting. Read more ... -
Scything and Grassland Management
Listed on July 6, 2013 by Monkton Wyld Court in Featured CoursesBeginners often imagine that a two day scything course is a bit excessive, just to learn how to use a garden tool; and that is true if all you want to do is knock down weeds. But anyone who wants to mow grass on any scale will benefit from a two day courseRead more ... -
Short Courses at Wentworth Castle: Meditation to Quieten the Mind
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedMeditation is an effective way of counteracting stress and increasing the sense of personal well-being. The course is designed for those who have not practiced before or who have only limited experience. Read more ... -
Landscape Photography Course
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedDesigned to help you understand the basic skills and techniques required to take better landscape and architectural photographs. Suitable for those who own either a digital SLR (DLSR) or any digital camera that can be manually overridden. Read more ... -
Northern College Study Breaks: Pastel Techiques
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedAn opportunity to learn and practice how to paint a landscape using the versatile medium of pastel . We will be looking at a range of techniques and applying them to enhance picture development. Will appeal to all levels of expertise.Read more ... -
Brahms through the Looking Glass – with Julian Williamson
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedA look at the many aspects of Brahms’s life and music as seen and heard by the many interesting people with whom he came into contact - his life and music through the eyes and ears of his contemporaries.Read more ... -
Creating Calm from Chaos: Coping Strategies for you and your lifestyle
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedWellbeing is related to personal health, community spirit and creativity and is shaped by our genes, our upbringing, our personal circumstances and choices, with negative thoughts and worries it saps our energy and destroys calm feelingsRead more ... -
Shakespeare in our Time
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Northern College in UncategorisedThere are countless situations in Shakespeare’s plays, that can be put into the category of ‘the human condition’ - part of what it means to be human. This is one good reason why Shakespeare’s plays continue to be performed - this course will explore why.Read more ... -
Making Music Together – An Improvisation Weekend
Listed on July 5, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesAn excellent course for those who wish to develop their skills as a performer, ensemble player, composer or workshop leader… or those who simply wish to enjoy making music in the company of like minded people! Read more ... -
Who was the real Antonio Salieri?
Listed on June 27, 2013 by Benslow in Featured CoursesJulian Williamson’s course aims to show that Salieri was in fact one of the most important musicians in Europe over a period of half a century, writing more than forty fine operas which regularly filled the major European opera theatres and occupying the highest musical posts in Vienna.Read more ... -
Fantastical painting – creating imagined worlds
Listed on June 12, 2013 by West Dean College in Featured CoursesExplore your imagined worlds, create painted realities, and work with themes dealing with fantastical narratives, surrealist dreams and the dynamics of the imagination in a playful and practical manner.Read more ... -
Carmen Cloth Doll
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesCreate the feel of the Carnival with Carmen, a colourful, fun cloth doll. Learn contemporary cloth doll making techniques to create this bright, bold, fun character and add frills and fruit to complete this exuberant character doll.Read more ... -
Italian Language Weekend
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesThe course is for those who want to be able to converse with greater ease. You will be guided step by step towards achieving confidence in conversation. Read more ... -
Clarinet Weekend
Listed on June 7, 2013 by Alston Hall in Featured CoursesThis new course will enable clarinettists to explore a variety of repertoire through ensemble playing. Groups will vary in size from trios through to full choir. Groups will be altered each session so that participants may experience a variety of styles of playing. There will be opportunity to try instruments including the tiny Eb and contra clarinets. A diverse library will be available throughout the course. Read more ... -
Who Was Jane Austen?
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesNo other novelist in late 18th and early 19th Century England wrote with Jane Austen’s clarity or acuity. While the down-to-earth Georgians appreciated her pithy, realistic portraits of gentry life, the straitlaced Victorians discovered a moral weightiness in her writing and cast a veneer of respectability over the novelist’s life and character. Two hundred years...
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Deserted Villages in the Cotswolds
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesBy the 13th Century, the Cotswold landscape was dotted with a network of villages. However, with the Black Death of 1348/9, many communities were weakened and communities were broken up. We will examine the causes of desertion and the character of the deserted Cotswold village. Read more ... -
Art Quilts again – Impressionism
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesFerret will show you how to prepare a pattern from your own photographs, but you will be supplied a pattern to get you started right away. You will learn how a computer programme can help you produce a pattern, and how stitching holds your pieces together, quilts your quilt and adds detail all at the same timeRead more ... -
Go Gospel Weekend
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesBlow away the blues with a weekend of uplifting gospel singing. Experienced gospel choir director Jo Sercombe will take you through a variety of gospel repertoire, from early spirituals to contemporary American gospel; helping you to free your voice and create that special gospel vocal sound. Read more ... -
Painting Studio Weekend
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesThis is an opportunity for painters of all abilities to be guided through their own project by a highly experienced artist and tutor. The weekend offers a supportive and stimulating environment where you can learn new techniques, experiment with style and share ideas. Read more ... -
Get to Grips with Adobe Photoshop Elements
Listed on June 5, 2013 by Farncombe Courses in Featured CoursesAfter a photo-shoot around the grounds of Farncombe Estate, the course will continue with a structured programme that will show the benefits of two important features of the Adobe software – Organiser and Edit.Read more ... -
Creative Writing Course
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Durhamhill in Featured Courses Whether you need help to get started, or to edit and develop your work, or simply to get new ideas and inspiration, this could be the course for youRead more ... -
The Czech Tradition: Symphony and Symphonic Poem
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesThe Czech tradition is one of the most significant in the whole of Western music. The national style which developed during the 19th century and continued during the 20th has contributed much fine music by many composers, and remains central to the repertoire of musicians the world over.Read more ... -
The Music of Haydn (with the Brodowski String Quartet)
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesHaydn is the composer who more than any other epitomizes the aims and achievements of the Classical era. Our weekend will conclude with a performance of Haydn’s final string quartet by one of Britain’s leading ensembles, the Brodowski String Quartet.Read more ... -
Berlioz and Saint-Saëns (with Gwyn Parry-Jones)
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesHector Berlioz (1803-1869) and Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) were leading figures of musical romanticism, and we will explore various masterworks by these two great French composers. Read more ... -
Wagner: Lohengrin
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesOur conference will consider the development of Wagner’s career and in particular his opera Lohengrin. We will discuss the relationship between music, characterisation and drama, with illustrations on excellent hi-fi equipment including DVD with large screen.Read more ... -
Bliss & Walton: Two Masters of English Music (with Andrew Burn)
Listed on June 4, 2013 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesOur weekend will explore the lives and music of two of the greatest among English composers, Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) and Sir William Walton (1902-1983). Read more ...
